A useful tool or a tool’s errand?: The “e-tongue” makes its debut
Lisa Abend reports this week in Time Magazine that Barcelona’s Institute for Electronics recently unveiled a so-called e-tongue capable of discerning grape varieties as well as vintages, the idea being that science could provide a tool useful in the detection of wine fraud, a concern that seems more and more top-of-mind as prestige wine prices skyrocket on the ever-more-popular wine auction market.
Details were few (this is a weekly news magazine, after all, a news vehicle sadly on the brink of becoming a marginalized medium), but the implications on the surface seem pretty far-reaching.
Kind of reminds me a little bit of Tab’s bid to unseat Coca-Cola in the 1970s.